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Finance Minister KN Balagopal said the allocation was to prevent the steep rise in prices of essential commodities during Onam.
Children or legal heirs subjecting a senior citizen to cruelty or shifting the latter to a rescue home without consent could be sentenced to jail for up to 3 years.
CPM will now undertake further discussions on the matter within its Politburo, with a review expected post-Lok Sabha elections.
The government plans to place the Bill before the Assembly in its next session.
In the Kerala Budget presented yesterday, Finance Minister K N Balagopal announced that foreign and private universities will be welcomed to set up campuses in the state.
Resource mobilisation efforts were modest. The common man may not have anything to complain.
By unreservedly wooing private capital, the Kerala budget has offered the first draft of the CPM plan to jettison Left ideals and embrace neoliberal thinking.
Government had sold the story of Centre fiscally strangulating the state so well that it was a budget with very low expectations despite being a pre election one.
The minister had expressed his displeasure over the inadequate allocation for the department in the budget.
Balagopal estimated a 12.6% growth in state’s own tax revenues in 2023-24. What he got was just a 7% increase.